This module provides Perl scripts easy way to interface the App::gh::Git version control system. The modules have an easy and well-tested way to call arbitrary Git commands; in the future, the interface will also provide specialized methods for doing easily operations which are not totally trivial to do over the generic command interface.

While some commands can be executed outside of any context (e.g. 'version' or 'init'), most operations require a repository context, which in practice means getting an instance of the App::gh::Git object using the repository() constructor. (In the future, we will also get a new_repository() constructor.) All commands called as methods of the object are then executed in the context of the repository.

Part of the "repository state" is also information about path to the attached working copy (unless you work with a bare repository). You can also navigate inside of the working copy using the wc_chdir() method. (Note that the repository object is self-contained and will not change working directory of your process.)

Currently, the module merely wraps calls to external App::gh::Git tools. In the future, it will provide a much faster way to interact with App::gh::Git by linking directly to libgit. This should be completely opaque to the user, though (performance increase notwithstanding).

Construct a new repository object. OPTIONS are passed in a hash like fashion, using key and value pairs. Possible options are:

Repository - Path to the App::gh::Git repository.

WorkingCopy - Path to the associated working copy; not strictly required as many commands will happily crunch on a bare repository.

WorkingSubdir - Subdirectory in the working copy to work inside. Just left undefined if you do not want to limit the scope of operations.

Directory - Path to the App::gh::Git working directory in its usual setup. The .git directory is searched in the directory and all the parent directories; if found, WorkingCopy is set to the directory containing it and Repository to the .git directory itself. If no .git directory was found, the Directory is assumed to be a bare repository, Repository is set to point at it and WorkingCopy is left undefined. If the $GIT_DIR environment variable is set, things behave as expected as well.

You should not use both Directory and either of Repository and WorkingCopy - the results of that are undefined.

Alternatively, a directory path may be passed as a single scalar argument to the constructor; it is equivalent to setting only the Directory option field.

Calling the constructor with no options whatsoever is equivalent to calling it with Directory => '.'. In general, if you are building a standard porcelain command, simply doing App::gh::Git->repository() should do the right thing and setup the object to reflect exactly where the user is right now.

Execute the given App::gh::Git COMMAND (specify it without the 'git-' prefix), optionally with the specified extra ARGUMENTS.

The second more elaborate form can be used if you want to further adjust the command execution. Currently, only one option is supported:

STDERR - How to deal with the command's error output. By default (undef) it is delivered to the caller's STDERR. A false value (0 or '') will cause it to be thrown away. If you want to process it, you can get it in a filehandle you specify, but you must be extremely careful; if the error output is not very short and you want to read it in the same process as where you called command(), you are set up for a nice deadlock!

The method can be called without any instance or on a specified App::gh::Git repository (in that case the command will be run in the repository context).

In scalar context, it returns all the command output in a single string (verbatim).

Close the PIPE as returned from command_*_pipe(), checking whether the command finished successfully. The optional CTX argument is required if you want to see the command name in the error message, and it is the second value returned by command_*_pipe() when called in array context. The call idiom is:

Close the PIPE_IN and PIPE_OUT as returned from command_bidi_pipe(), checking whether the command finished successfully. The optional CTX argument is required if you want to see the command name in the error message, and it is the fourth value returned by command_bidi_pipe(). The call idiom is:

Execute the given COMMAND in the same way as command() does but do not capture the command output - the standard output is not redirected and goes to the standard output of the caller application.

While the method is called command_noisy(), you might want to as well use it for the most silent App::gh::Git commands which you know will never pollute your stdout but you want to avoid the overhead of the pipe setup when calling them.

Change the working copy subdirectory to work within. The SUBDIR is relative to the working copy root directory (not the current subdirectory). Must be called on a repository instance attached to a working copy and the directory must exist.

Retrieve the configuration VARIABLE in the same manner as config does. In scalar context requires the variable to be set only one time (exception is thrown otherwise), in array context returns allows the variable to be set multiple times and returns all the values.

Retrieve the integer configuration VARIABLE. The return value is simple decimal number. An optional value suffix of 'k', 'm', or 'g' in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024, 1048576 (1024^2), or 1073741824 (1024^3) prior to output. It would return undef if configuration variable is not defined,

This function returns a hashref of refs stored in a given remote repository. The hash is in the format refname =\ hash>. For tags, the refname entry contains the tag object while a refname^{} entry gives the tagged objects.

REPOSITORY has the same meaning as the appropriate git-ls-remote argument; either an URL or a remote name (if called on a repository instance). GROUPS is an optional arrayref that can contain 'tags' to return all the tags and/or 'heads' to return all the heads. REFGLOB is an optional array of strings containing a shell-like glob to further limit the refs returned in the hash; the meaning is again the same as the appropriate git-ls-remote argument.

This function may or may not be called on a repository instance. In the former case, remote names as defined in the repository are recognized as repository specifiers.

This suite of functions retrieves and parses ident information, as stored in the commit and tag objects or produced by var GIT_type_IDENT (thus TYPE can be either author or committer; case is insignificant).

The ident method retrieves the ident information from git var and either returns it as a scalar string or as an array with the fields parsed. Alternatively, it can take a prepared ident string (e.g. from the commit object) and just parse it.

ident_person returns the person part of the ident - name and email; it can take the same arguments as ident or the array returned by ident.

Attempts to retreive the temporary file mapped to the string NAME. If an associated temp file has not been created this session or was closed, it is created, cached, and set for autoflush and binmode.

Internally locks the file mapped to NAME. This lock must be released with temp_release() when the temp file is no longer needed. Subsequent attempts to retrieve temporary files mapped to the same NAME while still locked will cause an error. This locking mechanism provides a weak guarantee and is not threadsafe. It does provide some error checking to help prevent temp file refs writing over one another.

In general, the File::Handle returned should not be closed by consumers as it defeats the purpose of this caching mechanism. If you need to close the temp file handle, then you should use File::Temp or another temp file faculty directly. If a handle is closed and then requested again, then a warning will issue.

Releases a lock acquired through temp_acquire(). Can be called either with the NAME mapping used when acquiring the temp file or with the FILEHANDLE referencing a locked temp file.

Warns if an attempt is made to release a file that is not locked.

The temp file will be truncated before being released. This can help to reduce disk I/O where the system is smart enough to detect the truncation while data is in the output buffers. Beware that after the temp file is released and truncated, any operations on that file may fail miserably until it is re-acquired. All contents are lost between each release and acquire mapped to the same string.

All functions are supposed to throw Perl exceptions in case of errors. See the Error module on how to catch those. Most exceptions are mere Error::Simple instances.

However, the command(), command_oneline() and command_noisy() functions suite can throw App::gh::Git::Error::Command exceptions as well: those are thrown when the external command returns an error code and contain the error code as well as access to the captured command's output. The exception class provides the usual stringify and value (command's exit code) methods and in addition also a cmd_output method that returns either an array or a string with the captured command output (depending on the original function call context; command_noisy() returns undef) and $<cmdline> which returns the command and its arguments (but without proper quoting).

Note that the command_*_pipe() functions cannot throw this exception since it has no idea whether the command failed or not. You will only find out at the time you close the pipe; if you want to have that automated, use command_close_pipe(), which can throw the exception.

This magical statement will automatically catch any App::gh::Git::Error::Command exceptions thrown by CODE and make your program die with ERRMSG on its lips; the message will have %s substituted for the command line and %d for the exit status. This statement is useful mostly for producing more user-friendly error messages.

In case of no exception caught the statement returns CODE's return value.